The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, July 20, 1922, Image 1
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. VOLUME XXXVII
MEETING FIXES
ASSESSMENTS
Candidates for Office Will
Have to Pay This "
Time
FILLING FIVE OFFICES
Campaign Opens at Loris on
Saturday, August 5th.
Lists Close Friday Before
The Democratic executive committee
for this county met at the courthouse
last Friday morning at 10:.S0 o'clock
for the purpose of fixing the assessment
of candidates, and the places and
dates for the campaign speakings of
the campaign.
The meeting was called to order by
chairman, E. J. Sherwood, and the roll
call showed about twenty members of
the committee present.
The first matter taken up was that
of the assessments to be paid by the
candidates to defray the expenses of
the primary election. The chairman
states that in this election only a few
of the offices are to he filled as follows:
. Treasurer
A ud i tor
House of Representatives
Probate .fudge
Magistrates.
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sessmer.ts could not lie.* as much this
time :is it wms last unless the amount
to he paid by the candidates was
raised nor could managers and committeemen
he paid the same
amounts for their work unless by
some means a larger amount could
ho realized \from the assessments.
He stated that the total raised
by the assessments two years ago was
$1,40.0.00 and that out of this the expenses
were all paid and left a balance
which was still in the treasury,
of $114.77. Two years ago the candidates
for treasurer were assessed
$50.00, auditor $50.00, House of Representatives
$25.00, magistrate at
Conway $20, at large $5.
The matter of the assessments to
bo paid this tune was then submitted
to the meeting and these were finally
fixed ms follows:
Treasurer $100.00
Auditor 100.00
House 50.00
Probate Judge 50.00
Magistrate, Conway 25.00
Magistrate at large 5.00
The committee then decided when
the time for filing pledges will close
and the campaign open; Time for
filing the pledges of candidates closes
at noon on Friday, August 4, and the
first campaign meeting will he held
at I,oris on Saturday, the day following.
August 5. Then the campaign
will rest on Sunday and Monday and
then take up the meetings again as
ioi lows:
Socastee, Tuesday, August 8.
Tilly Swamp, Wednesday, August !>.
Little River, Thursday, August 10.
Kbenezer, Friday, August 11.
Bayhoro, Saturday, August 12.
Then there will be a rest o! one
week during which there will he no
meetings, and after the week's rest
the meetings will go on to the end
as follows:
Green Sea. Monday, August 21.
Floyds, Tuesday, August 22.
Ay nor, Wednesday, August 23.
Dog Bluff, Thursday, August 21.
Pauley Swamp, Friday, August 25.
Conway, Saturday, August 20.
The first Democratic primary will
be held on Tuesday, August 21), just
three days after the close of the campaign
ends at Conway on the 20th.
It was brought out in the meeting
that the Democratic club rolls will
close on July 25. The chairman
urged the members of the committee
to make it convenient for both thei
men and women voters to sign the
rolls before it is too late; that no matWW.V.V.VMV.VWAVA'
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, If I were a woman I would,*,
o register. If I were a woman T "
would sign the Democratic club "
J* roll before July 25 and thus he "
J able to cast my vote in any pri
*m mary that may be held during "I
the next two vears. '
mm What is all this talk about a *2
J" woman having to tell her age
" when she signs the roll, or rath- "
er what does it all amount to?
" If I were a woman I would tell
my age as soon as I would tell ?
mm anything else about myself. A J"
*1 woman is as old as she looks "J
J" and acts. Her age in actual
years makes no difference to "
anybody in the world. "
" Since woman has taken on
? herself the burden as well as
? the privilege of the vote she ,
I must stand up to the resposihil"?
ity. If woman be any better "
J than man (?) then we need her "
" vote to elect the best candidates *
for office. The need may n?>t
appear imperative now, but it "
mm may appear so later. The woI-,.
, man who r'ai's to sign the rolls
n " and do all other things needed
l " to make Iior eligible to exercise ?"
* Ji her rights may repent her ac J
tion later. J*
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(The
BUCK HOUSANI)
HITS CHESTNUT
Making Serious Wound on the
Head With Automobile
Pumn
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last Sunday evening at about
dark at lied Bluff. Daggett Chestnut
was struck on the head by Buck Housand,
the weapon used being an automobile
handpump. He was knocked
down by the lick which made a large
sign on his head, and was brought to
Conway on Monday morning in what
was described as a precarious condition.
The outcome of the blow on
the head was uncertain.
Just before the blow was struck on
Chestnut a car containing Lester Housand
and his father, Buck Housand,
drove up near the store of Buck Housand
at lied Bluff. The car stopped.
Standing near were Daggett Chestnut,
Lite liheuark, H.urvev Skipper,
Dick Skipper, Joe Co\ and J. A. Stalvoy.
Lester Housand kprang out of
the car and attacked Harvey Skipper.
While they were engaged in combat,
Mrs. Buck Housand came out of the
house nearby and struck Harvey Skipper
with a/ fence rail.
The injury done to Harvey Skipper
i . _ * .. 1. _ * r* i
W..I* uc?i .so .suriou.s, as ne was nxeu up
by the doctor sewing up his wounds.
It was a Iter tlio fight between Lester
Housand and Harvey Skipper had
been quieted to some extent that the
injury was done to Daggett Chestnut.
Chestnut was standing up and look-'
ing on when it is said that Buck Housand
took up a hand pump used for
inflating automobile tires, and while
standing behind Chestnut, struck him
a powerful blow on the head which
felled Chestnut to the ground.
It appears that there had been no
previous personal difficulty between
the parties, but the trouble arose
about talk of h .-i?i.derous nature concerning
some of the wives or daughters
of some of the principals in the
affair. Buck Housand conducts a
store .at Red Bluff and it was near
his place of business that the fight
took place.
A warrant was sworn out for Buck
Housand and the constable of Magistrate
W. H. Chestnut, with A. V.
Chestnut, went to arrest Housand at
an early hour on last Monday morning.
The injured man, Daggett Chestnut,
is :x relative of the constable and
also a relative of A. V. Chestnut, who
r^comparied the constable On this
ground Housand refused to be arrested
and stated he would not go to jail
in that way.
After some parleying, J. R. Gore,
constable in Simpson Creek township
under Magistrate H. C. Gore, was
sent after and J. R. Gore made the
arrest.
It is said that whiskey had no part
to play whatever in this trouble, but
had other causes.
HEAVIEST FALL
IN A CENTURY
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William mirgess 01 o. v,.,
on Hie public road between Socastee
and MurrelFs Inlot is Nf> years of ago.
In all of tlv.it time he has never known
the water from rainfall in Collins
Creek to flow over the roadbed, where
the public road crosses this creek, until
this summer.
During the recent heavy rains in
that section of the county the flood
waters from the rainfall ran over the
top of the second rail of the bridge
which now spans the stream.
This is mentioned to show the immense
fall of rain in that particular
community, something that evidently
never occurred before in almost 100
years.
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More than six thousand tyypical
school children from representative
sections of South Carolina were recently
tested bv a trained staff from
(he national committee for mental hygient.
They found 2.K per cent of
the white children and 4.2 per cent
of the colored children to be mentally
defective.
ter how many special elections might
be held in two years' time these rolls
would have to govern for that time,
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voters illusi enroll ai tneir n ears si
precincts by nearest practicable
routes, according to the rules. To cle
otherwise might briny on a contest
of some election. Voters must siyr
up by their full names and not by initials
or first name and middle initials
Write the full name every time.
After the closing of the books or
July 25 the executive committee must
meet again for the purpose of purging
the rolls. This meeting must lx
held before Auyust 1. The club rolls
will be yone over with care.
A committee consisting of E. J
Sherwood, W. M. Carter and J. T
Shelly was appointed bv the meeting
for the purpose of marking out tin
magistrate districts in the county an<
thus make it easy to cast the vote fo
magistrate in the coming election.
Each committeeman was asked t<
hfyid in his recommendation for tin
three managers of each poll. Thos
who were present handed in the name
while those absent will mail in tin
names and a complete list of the man
agers for each precinct will be pub
lished either this week or next.
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CONWAY, S. C., THURSDAY,
i ENROLL FOR '
$
J If you would vote in tlie
enroll your full name on your loci
mm on which date the books close.
J
\ According to the rules of the
J" lin.a the qualifications for membei
U the state and for voting* at a prim
" "The applicant for member
J of age, or shall become so before t
" be a white Democrat. He shall be
" of this state. No person shall b<
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% primary unless tie nas le^mtu m
" county six months prior to the s
? the club district f>0 days prior to tl
, to enroll: Provided, That public
" the Gospel in charge of a regular
" from the provisisns of this secti
" qualified."
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" Women are ineligible to jury
enrolling in a Democratic club would
WEEK'S RECORD
IN CAR WRECKS
Two Cars Collide Near Crab
Tree in Headon
Style
'\NOTHER TAKES THE DITCH
Fast Driving and Other Causes
Lead to Various Results
On Highways
hast week took the record in the
matter of auto wrecks on the public
highway in this county.
On Tuesday night of hist week O.
M. Blanton, driving a Ford touring
car, as he was making the turn at
the bridge across Crab Tree, just this
side of Home wood, drove into a Ford
coupe which was being driven toward
Conway by LeGrand Pace of Marion,
S. C\, in company with a young Mr.
Evans from the same town and two
Conway girls.
The damages to the coupe were
> repaired by tlie Tisdale Bros, many
new parts being put in to replace
those destroyed and broken by the
shock. The l>i11 amounted to the sum
of $00.15, which was paid by Mr.
Blanton. The latter took the blame
for the accident, happening to be on
the wrong side of a dangerous' curve
while passing round that curve, and
the other driver not being at fault.
This bill included the cost of a
transfer to take Messrs. Pace and
Evans to Marion. The Ford coupe
,.was so badly broken up that it took
more than a day to get it in here and
the damages repaired.
Blanton had been in Conway for
two or three days attending to,business.
He was on his way out of Conwas
toward his home when this accident
occurred and he returned to the
town and made things good before
he left. The damages to his own car
did not amount to as much as it did
on the other.' His windshield and radiator
were damaged and some replacements
had to l?e made.
Another accident of dangerous possibilities
took place on Tuesday evening
of last week, when a Ford car,
i which was being driven by
, Jackson, a traveling man, ran off the
embankment just beyond the long
Kvirlfffl T-Tnlfwnv Crook. near
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Toddville. One account of tho cause
of the accident was a board resting
on the side of the road. The end
1 caught iti the wheel and turned the
car over into the ditch. There was
another man riding in the car with
Jackson and beyond a few bruises
both men escaped injury. The car itself
took up all the force. The windshield
and the top were all gone. This
! car was repaired at the garage of the
Buck Motor Company and the bill
' amounted to a neat sum by the time
the work was all done.
Later in the week at the town hall
. the Chevrolet of W. J. Singleton,
which was being driven by Mr. Sin'
gleton's son. went ahead unexpected1
ly while the boy was cranking it. He
caught up on the radiator and the
car stopped when it -truck one of the
iron, pipes holding up one of the signs
1 at the city hall. The damage ir- this
case was not so much and the driver
1 was not hurt. The accident carried
dangerous possibilities, however, and
if the engine had not been choked
down when the car struck against the
1 post there is no telbng what would
- have been the consequences to Mr.
" Singleton.
This last mentioned accident was
' K\t Avanl-lnff nn tho mnclvnO
while the ^oars were in hign. It wa.:
better in high than if it had been
left in low. Similar acc'deots have
- occurred before arid with moie damaging
results.
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Two million American club women
pledged themselves to assist the Amevican
T.egion in obtaining adequate
n hospital treatment for disabled World
0 War veterans and to help rehabilitats
ed veterans find employment through
0 their representatives at the meeting
" of the board of directors of the Gen
oral Federation of Women's Clubs at
Chautauqua, N. Y.
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JULY 20. 1922
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THE PRIMARY :|
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primary this summer you MUST "
tl club book on cr before July 25, *
JJ
s Democratic party of South Caro ship
in any club of the party in
mry election are as follows:
ship, or voter, shall be 21 years J"
he succeeding general election and *"
a citizen of the United States ai d *
;lonjr to any club or vote in any "
the state two years and in the "?
UOPPPfl i niv crpnornl nlprtinn ji nd in ?
le first primary following fiis offer
school teachers and ministers of
organized church shall he exempt ?w
on as to residence, if otherwise "?
a
a
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' duty and even if they1 were liable, **
not in anv way affect that matter.
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STONEWALL HAS
MAPS OF ROUTE
Making in Two Sections Both
of Which Will be Pub.
lished
'U. S. AUTO ASSOCIATION
Road Will Extend From Chicago,
111., to Myrtle
Beach, S. C.
All things concerning the Stonewall
highway, the route of which
leads from Chicago on the Great
Lakes, by Conway to Myrtle Beach,
on the Atlantic Seaboard, are very interesting
to the people of this entire
section.
Recently A. P. Lallier and L. O.
Smith of Washington, D. C.. representatives
of the United States Automobile
Association, spent some time in
Conway, also at Myrtle Ucacn taking
filPM nntpy uml nthri' ili> ivn <
paper for the making of this branch
of the highway as it leans out of Merry
county along the national highway
toward Marion. Tliev wove afterward
heard from in Marion, where they
were engaged in similar work, and
still later in Florence, S. C.
The Florence Times, in a recent issue,
has the following information
about their work and about the road:
Road Scouts A. P. Lallier and L.
O. Smith of Washington, D. O., arrived
in Florence one day last week
and spent the day charting and marking
the Stonewall huihway vhich they
are logging from Myrtle Reach to
Chicago, 111., via Florence. They expected
to take the road again and
continue their drive on to Asheville,
N. C. , as rapidly as possible.
These scouts are working for the
United States Automobile Association,
which is undertaking to log and publish
the chart of the Stonewall highwav
under the mi spices of the Stonewall
Highway Association. Just as
soon as the work is finished the maps
.and addenda of the completed highway
will he published for 4'ree d:.-tbut
ion.
The route of this highway is from
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Darlinpton, !Iartsv:l!e, Mf'loo,
Moiu'op, N. C., Charlotte, Asheville,
Knoxville, Tenn.; Eoxinpton, Ky.; Cincinnati,
Ohio; Indianapolis, lnd.; and
Chicago. It is a distance of probably
1 .bOO miles as nearly as the lenpth
of the road can be estimated now. The
highway log is heinp pul)lished in two
sections, the first from Myrtle Beach
to Asheville and the second from
Asheville to Chicapo.
Most of this hiphway is (|uite well
built now, say the scouts. By fall,
they said, it will be open from Myrtle
Beach to Chicapo with averape pood
loads to the best types know n in present
hiphway construction. Most of
the difficulties alonp the road are the
detours which are necessary because
of present construction.
Some of the prominent citizens ff
South Carolina are back of the Stonewall
association. Amonp them are
l>r. E. W. Sikes of Hartsville, president;
D. M. Burrouphs of Conway,
vice president for South Carolina,
Charles O. Orton of Monroe, N. C., is
secretary.
FIFTEEN0 ACRES
FINE TOBACCO
C. C. Gore has fifteen acres of fine
tobacco this year not-withstanding the
seasons that were somewhat adverse
and which have damaged his crop t<
some extent.
He was in Conway last Saturday
with a sample hunch of leaves select
ed from a second cropping from hh
field. These leaves show a good hod\
considering the heavy rains and als<
a good color. It is believed that h<
will have more than the ordinary sue
cess with his crop this year.
Mr. Gore lives on the Inman plan
which contains- more than five hundro(
ai res of land'in all, of which thirl?
acres are cleared. He is a son of tin
late C. C. Gore, Sr., the noted lain
surveyor of his time.
Mr. Gore expects to sell his lug croj
under the auction plan.
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LATEST HORRY j
JOKE IS TOLD
Marionite as Usual is the Teller
of This Latest Tale
of Woe
An awful tale was once told on the
girls of Sampson county, North Carolina.
It was said that thov had blue rings
round their loirs, and the blue streaks
were not garters, either. They got
the blue rings from standing barefooted
in the water of ponds and
branches picking the blue huckleber-1
ries, for which that county of the tar
heel state has always been famous.
Men told the tale .all over this country
and laughed at it.
Various have been the jokes of a
similar nature told on the people of:
Horry county. South Carolina. The!
latest has come out and it is included
ir. a dispatch about a whisker* sti'l
captured in M'oodherry township in
Marion county. It is :\ news item sent
over to the Florence Times bv that
newspaper's Marion correspondent
last wrote, and hero it appears in full.
(Notice the desire to p!a\ off on Horry
county and Mvrtle Beach. placing
it. however, in the very end of tlie
article so that it might not he seen
at first.?Editor.)
Marion.?The operation of a still
near Old Oak church, in Woodberrv
ownship came to an abrupt end.
Three men were discoverer! at the stiB
diligently working in th.e interest of
John Barleycorn. They fled into the
swamp and have not been apprehended.
A new Ford automobile, with a
North Carolina license was also found
near the still, the license being tied
on the hack of the car and not attached
in the usual way. The report
is that these parties had been manufacturing:
and transporting." whiskey to
North Carolina..
Apropos of the number of stills
that have been found in the woods in
this county and Horry county, the recent
meeting of the .State Press Association
at Myrtle Beach one of the
editors was heard to remark that he
noticed a good many people in this
section who had a line of indentation
oil their noses which would indicate
that they wore spectacles, but none
of them wore spectacles, and he found
out later that the line of indentation
was caused from the fact that the
parties frequently drank booze out of
a fruit jar.
FIRE FIGHTERS
ENJOY FLORENCE
Delegates from Conway went over
to Florence last Thursday to take in
the firemen's convention held in that
citv on Thursday and Friday.
The Conwftyites wore J. L. .Chestnut.
member of the dennvtment. find
Perrv Qu.nttlebaum, tlio Conway fire
chief.
Following was the program carried
out hv the Florence Chamber of Commerce.
Thursday.
12:00 ?Convention called to carder
hv the president, I.ouis Belirens, at
Hotel Florence.
I evocation.
Address of welcome from Florence,
Hon. Mayor W. U. Barrinuer.
Address of welcome from tire department?
R. M. Self.
Kesponse?Chief Louis Belirens of
Charleston, president South Carolina
Firemen's Associat ion.
Address?J. M. Lynch of Florence.
Address?Hon. James D. McNeill of
Fayetteville, N. C. ex-president of
North Carolina State Firemen's Association
and president <>f the National
Firemen's Association.
Address?Hon. John J. McMahan,
insurance commissioner of South Carolina.
Luncheon?11otel Florence.
4:00 i\ M.?Special entertainment.
8:00 P. M.? Business session.
Friday
11 :00 A. M.?Business session.
TAKES WXRRANT
FOR YOUNG MAN
Magistrate W. H. Chestnut last
week issued a warrant for Albert J.
Singleton of the Pee Deo section of
Bucks township charging: ihe crime
of seduction.
| The warrant was issued at the behest
of the young: woman who makes
the charge under the statute or South
Carolina, under which several eases
have been tried before the courts here
in the last few years.
** The defendant has employed counsel
and declares th.it lie is not guilty I
of the crime charged.
Bond h.as been furnished and there
* may or may not bo a preliminary
' held before the case conies up in the
' high court.
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An otficial welcome from the French
government is awaiting the delegation
of American Legionnaires who
' will revisit the scenes of their A. K.
F. activities this August, according to
Ambassador Jussorand, speaking in
I behalf of his government. The papty
of legion men and their wives will
1 sail from New York on August 5 to
visit France, Belgium and England.
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NO 14
( \Ii LEADS TO
WHISKEY FIND
Ford Touring Almost Lost in
Waters on Kingston
Lake
TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE
Cooper and Sellers Drivers of
The Car, Deny any Violation
of the Law
Last Sunday morning- at an early
hour a local ir.ara.iro received an order
to pull a Ford tourinir car out of the
ditch.
The work was done by Mechanic
McEntyrc of the Ruck Motor Company.
hy means of <>np of the trucks
of the company and the accident was
reported as he was returning into
Cor> way.
The accident occurred on the old
sawdust road 4hat extends from the
old wooden hridiro near the old mill
she to the trinnery of the Snow Hill
G?n Company. Instead* of heintr in
the ditch the car proved to he almost
in the lake, as it had sheared ofr the
sawdust embankment into the edrro
of the waters of the lake and took up
airainst the roots of a cypress tr?e.
As soon as the news of the accident
came to the ears of the officers of the
law. Chief E. E. Dusenburv and V. D.
Johnson of the rural police went to
the scene of the trouble, as the officers
usually do in such matters. t'\ see
if then* could he found an y evidence
of whiskey in the circumstances.
The officers found T. Frank Cooper
and Goorce M. Sellers, two farmers
of the nearby township tryinir to tret
the Ford car. off from the place following"
the rescue hy the truck. The
officers helped them tret the car pushed
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<"i up i nt? mil and me two men
stopped the ear on the hill near the
residence of Rob MoCrackon.
At first no evidence of whiskey
could he found ahout the place of the
accident. First searches made hv the
officers along both sides of the old
road leading up to the gin failed to
find anv hidden whiskey.
Finally Chief Dusenhury found six
and one-half gallons of monkey rum
well hidden in the bushes and weeds
about one hundred feet from where
the car wa s stuck, and in the direction
of the gin from the car. Upon
finding this they pressed in a negro,
Joe Ward, much against his wishes,
to hitch up his wagon and drive the
wagon load of whiskey up to the citv
hall whoix? it was placed under lock
and key.
Cooper and Sellers both protested
against arrest, saying that they had
no connection whatever with the find
of whiskey; that they had not seen it
or had anything to do with it until it
had been found by the officer. They
were brought to the town hall and
placed under bond for their appearance
on Monday before the town court.
There appeared to he a question as
to whether the town or the county
had jurisdiction of the case. The line
of the town of Conway passes near
the Snow 11 ill Ginnery. The map in
the town hall was found to show this
line .as running through the ginnery
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the find of whiskev outside of Conway,
or if the 1 ihad l>eeu changed
since the map yas made so as to
take in more territory the find was
within the corporate limits. This
matter of jurisdiction was left over
to he lcttled later and in the meantime
bonds wore made for the .appearance
of the men before the Mayor for
an investigation and hearingJoe
Ward, the negro who lives near
by and works on the farm, said he
had heard knocking down on the h:ke
road at a very early hour on Sunday
morning. This was the only evidence
to be had of the time when the car
van off the embankment.
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GRADING AND TYING %
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? Some of the tobacco growers 3r
J were worried when the last Leg- %
I; is la tu re, by an act, made it %
" necessary to grade and tie leaf fc
M Jt
" tobacco before offering for sale "
*H on the warehouse floors. "
J" Some of the growers may not
% know how to erode Jind tin It
? may l>o bad for all those and
*" for them there is hut one thing1
" to do, unless they will quickly [[
J" learn how. In North Carolina IF
there is no such law. %
? Grading and tying, however,
U" is one of the best things to he 5"
? done for the improvement of J
" the tobacco industry. Kvery %
" grower ought to know the S
" grades and how to separate ^
" them just as well as the buyer %
? of the weed. Under the law the
" growers must learn. The bet- %
" ter they learn how to do this
" and know how to value their *.
"* own product, the better it will JV
he for them. Grading and ty- ?
" ing is a step forward in progi
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